Bio / Biografía

Daniel Hernández-Salazar’s interest on photography began during his childhood. Later it became a passion when he studied Architecture. During the 1980’s Guatemalan civil war, he worked as photojournalist for international agencies such as Agence France Presse, Reuters and the Associated Press. Hernández-Salazar presently works as an Independent Photographer, focusing his interests on portrait, nudes, architecture and historical memory—the last becoming his main topic of work and activism.

Daniel remains loyal to the practice of analogue photography and darkroom, which he has never abandoned. He is one of a few still practicing and teaching this technique. Although he masters digital equipment and techniques.

His work has been presented in more than 30 solo exhibitions and more than 40 group shows in North, Central and South America, Europe, Japan and Korea. For his artistic work in service of Human Rights he received in 1998 the Jonathan Mann Humanitas Award from the International Association of Physicians in Aids Care, and was named Knight and Officer of the Ordre Des Artes et des Lettres by the French Government in 2005 and 2017. Part of his oeuvre has been published in two personal anthologies by Kage Shobo, (Tokio, 2006) and University of Texas Press (Austin, 2007), and has been featured in a number of art, academic and news publications, including the New York Times LENS Blog, Harpers, 6Mois, among others.

Since November 2012, his work is included in the permanent collection of the Kazerne Dossin Holocaust and Human Rights Museum in Mechelen, Belgium. On September 2014 he was appointed curator and designer of his own photo exhibition Genocide Dismissed, Guatemala a Silenced Tragedy presented at that Museum until March 2015.

Currently he works in his project “se re(v)bela” which has been exhibited on 2016 in Guatemala City and in 2017 in Quetzaltenango.